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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot 1796-1875
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French painter, draughtsman and printmaker.
After a classical education at the College de Rouen, where he did not distinguish himself, and an unsuccessful apprenticeship with two drapers, Corot was allowed to devote himself to painting at the age of 26. He was given some money that had been intended for his sister, who had died in 1821, and this, together with what we must assume was his family continued generosity, freed him from financial worries and from having to sell his paintings to earn a living. Corot chose to follow a modified academic course of training. He did not enrol in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts but studied instead with Achille Etna Michallon and, after Michallon death in 1822, with Jean-Victor Bertin. Both had been pupils of Pierre-Henri Valenciennes, and, although in later years Corot denied that he had learnt anything of value from his teachers, his career as a whole shows his attachment to the principles of historic landscape painting which they professed.
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Painting ID:: 43330 THe Wagon
mk170
1874
Oil on canvas
47x56.8cm
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Painting ID:: 48969 Farmhouse in Normandy
mk192
c.1872
18x24in
Norton Simon Museum
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Painting ID:: 48970 The Merchant-s Quay at Rouen
mk192
1834
43x68in
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Painting ID:: 51831 Three Cows at the Pond
mk221
1855-1860
Oil on canvas
31x54.5cm
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Painting ID:: 51832 Horseman on the road
mk221
1860-1865
Oil on canvas
40x56.5cm
France
1796-1875
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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
1796-1875
Corot Locations
French painter, draughtsman and printmaker.
After a classical education at the College de Rouen, where he did not distinguish himself, and an unsuccessful apprenticeship with two drapers, Corot was allowed to devote himself to painting at the age of 26. He was given some money that had been intended for his sister, who had died in 1821, and this, together with what we must assume was his family continued generosity, freed him from financial worries and from having to sell his paintings to earn a living. Corot chose to follow a modified academic course of training. He did not enrol in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts but studied instead with Achille Etna Michallon and, after Michallon death in 1822, with Jean-Victor Bertin. Both had been pupils of Pierre-Henri Valenciennes, and, although in later years Corot denied that he had learnt anything of value from his teachers, his career as a whole shows his attachment to the principles of historic landscape painting which they professed.
. Related Artists to Jean Baptiste Camille Corot: | Jozef Chelmonski | Henri Jules Geo | George Barret | Alden J Weir | LIMBOURG brothers |
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